Short: Transfer DiskID-file to AsimCDFS-CDDA (v1.1) Author: Thomas Aglassinger Uploader: Thomas Aglassinger Type: disk/cdrom Requires: AsimCDFS 3.5 Architecture: m68k-amigaos Kurz: DiskID-Datei auf AsimCDFS-CDDA uebertragen (v1.1) TITLE DiskID2Asim VERSION 1.1 AUTHOR Thomas Aglassinger DESCRIPTION Transfers an already existing DiskID-file to an Audio-CD (CDDA): relabels the disk and renames the tracks using the information found in the DiskID-file. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AsimCDFS 3.5, SCSI-CD-Rom with support for Audio-CDs, AmigaOS 2.x. and DiskID-files (which can be created and modified by several CDDA-Players, like MCDPlayer and OptyCDPlayer). It also might work with older versions of AsimCDFS, but I didn't test this. AVAILABILITY Every Aminet-mirror, file "disk/cdrom/DiskID2Asim.lha"; for example "ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/disk/cdrom/DiskID2Asim.lha". PRICE Free. DISTRIBUTABILITY DiskID2Asim is copyrighted freeware. It may be distributed freely as long as no modifications are made to the executable and this document. A nominal fee may be asked to cover distribution costs. DiskID2Asim may not be used for any commercial purposes or included with any commercial product without the written permission of the author. MOTIVATION AsimCDFS supports CDDAs is quite nifty way: You can access every track immediatly as file. By default, they are named like "Track.1", "Track.2" and so on. These names can be changed (from Workbench or using AsimTunes), but this is a rather dull task. There already exists a large pool of DiskID-files (see Aminet), but unfortunatly, no converter is included into AsimCDFS. INSTALLATION Drag the icon anywhere you want and modify the tooltypes according to your needs. TEMPLATE DEVICE/K,UNIT/N/K,DISKIDPATH/K,TRACKPATH/K, NOTITLE/S,NOTRACKS/S,NOBLANKS/S,RESET/S,VERBOSE/S USAGE DiskID2Asim can be invoked from CLI or Workbench. The arguments for the tooltypes are the same as for CLI. DEVICE scsi-device the CD-Rom is connected to; default "scsi.device" UNIT scsi-unit the CD-Rom is mounted as; default 5 DISKIDPATH directory, where the DiskID-files ("ID#?") are located TRACKPATH directory, where the "Track.#?"-files are located. default "CD0:AIFF_Stereo"; usually, there should be no need to change this. NOTE: Renaming a file in one of the directories for different audio-formats also affects all corresponding files in all other directories. NOTITLE do not relabel disk with album-title NOTRACKS do not rename files with track-title NOBLANKS replace blanks in titles by underscores ("_") RESET reset title and/or tracks to defaults ("Title_Unknown" and "Track.#?") VERBOSE enable verbose output The required DiskID-file needs already to exist, and, of course, the CDDA you want to apply the DiskID-file on needs to be inserted in your CD-Rom-drive. DiskID2Asim does some manipulation on the original title when converting it to a filename: - surrounding blanks are removed - text inside brakets is removed - some special characters ("#?|~..") are replaced by "-" - "/" is replaced by "\" If the filename is still too long, it will be cut-down to the filesystem-maximum (30 characters for the album-title, 25 characters for track-titles) and the last two characters will be "..". If several tracks exist with the same name or tracks don't result in unique filenames after 25 characters, an unique filename will be computed (extensions like ".1", ".2".. are appended). EXAMPLE DiskID-file: ID100081EC029E71 ("[xyz]" denotes comments which are not part of the DiskID-file) Half Man Half Biscuit [artists] Mc Intyre, Treadmore And Davitt [title] Outbreak Of Vitas Gerulaitis [track#1] Prag Vec At The Melkweg [track#2] Christian Rock Concert [track#3] Lets Not [track#4] Yipps (My Baby Got The) [track#5] Hedley Verityesque [track#6] A Lilac Harry Quinn [track#7] Our Tune [track#8] Girlfriend's Finished With Him [track#9] Everything's A.O.R. [track#10] Command call (for my machine): DiskID2Asim DEVICE=SCSI-Apollo.device UNIT=5 \ DISKIDPATH=appl:sound/disks VERBOSE Program output: DiskID2Asim - transfer DiskID-file to AsimCDFS-CDDA (v1.1, 03.09.96) (C) Thomas Aglassinger 1996 - This is Freeware! Rename `CD0:' to `Mc Intyre, Treadmore And..' Rename `Track.1' to `Outbreak Of Vitas..' Rename `Track.2' to `Prag Vec At The Melkweg' Rename `Track.3' to `Christian Rock Concert' Rename `Track.4' to `Lets Not' Rename `Track.5' to `Yipps' Rename `Track.6' to `Hedley Verityesque' Rename `Track.7' to `A Lilac Harry Quinn' Rename `Track.8' to `Our Tune' Rename `Track.9' to `Girlfriend's Finished..' Rename `Track.10' to `Everything's A.O.R.' 10 out of 10 track-titles modified Comments: For the title, "Mc Intyre, Treadmore And Davitt", the text is reduced to fit 30 characters and ends with ".." For track#1, "Outbreak Of Vitas Gerulaitis", the text is reduced to fit 25 charaters and ends with "..". This still allows a ".info" to be appended to the filename. For track#5, "Yipps (My Baby Got The)", the text inside brakets is removed and results in "Yipps". PROBLEMS - When updating the album-title (with NOTITLE not specified), CDDAs currently playing are interrupted. This is a bug of AsimCDFS. - DiskID2Asim asumes that Examine() and ExNext() return the track-sequence in correct order. This is the case for version 3.5 of AsimCDFS, but if this changes in future, the filenames won't fit the corresponding tracks anymore. - If, for some reason, the filenames get totally trashed, you can repair them using the editor of AsimTunes. I needed this once during development, when two files got identical names. - As a feature of AsimCDFS, the usage of DiskID2Asim also affects the database used by AsimTunes, but the artist-field remains untouched. DISCLAIMER No responsibilities are taken for damaged CDs, CDROM drives, Amigas or any other components or data involved while using DiskID2Asim. If you find any bugs, let me know. HISTORY Version 1.1, 3-Sep-1996 - uses more sophisticated algorithm to create unique filenames - no more insists on tracks named "Track.#?" and therefor can be applied multiple times (if the DiskID-file has been modified) - removes only whole words from long names - checks if "l:AsimCDFS" is available - added RESET option Version 1.0, 2-Sep-1996 - initial release